Is affiliate marketing a waste of time?

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That’s a question i see all the time. Another very popular question is “Can you really make money with affiliate marketing?”. I believe those two are probably the most frequently asked questions about affiliate marketing. The answer is, of course, you can make money with it.
Affiliate marketing is not only an excellent home business opportunity that doesn’t require a big investment to get started. It is also a business model that will keep growing in the next years. According to an article in Forbes, affiliate marketing is one of the biggest industries in the U.S. right now and is expected to grow to $6.8 billion in the next 4 years.
Affiliate marketing is definitely not easy. Especially if you are a beginner and you have never built a website before. But we all have to start from somewhere.
In my opinion affiliate marketing requires patience and determination. Those are two of the major characteristics every successful affiliate marketer has. Taking massive action is the only way to achieve your goals.



The Horrors Of Affiliate Marketing

No matter if you are a beginner or an experienced online marketer there will always be a number of problems you will have to overcome if you want to succeed as an affiliate marketer. 
There will always be issues you will have to deal with. Like with any other business model. Things are constantly changing in online marketing so you must be flexible and able to update your Marketing Strategies at any given time. Even if you are not making any sales at the moment it could simply be because you are promoting the wrong products. But that in my opinion, is not that big of a problem. You can always try other programs and products.
This post is about the things you can do to deal with these issues. One of the best ways to avoid making mistakes is by learning from other people’s failures.
Below are the 2 main reasons people fail to make an income from their affiliate marketing business.

1) Traffic

Without it, nothing else matters. If your site gets no visitors you obviously have no chance of making any money from it. If no one is visiting, no one will ever click on your affiliate links. You must somehow drive traffic to your website. Lack of traffic is the #1 reason people quit affiliate marketing. You spend hours upon hours trying to create a beautiful website, adding content to it and researching for the best products/services in your niche. But then you realize people don’t even know your site exists.

2) Conversions

Attracting traffic might not be a problem for you. But for some reason, you still can’t make a sale. That is actually a very common issue affiliate marketers face. And not just beginners but even experienced marketers struggle with low conversion rates.
“Why can’t i make any money even though i get a couple of thousands of visitors to my site every month?”
That’s a question bloggers and marketers often ask. I am afraid there is not an easy answer to that question. It depends on so many factors and the reasons always differ from one site to another. Turning your visitors into customers is not the simplest thing to do but there are certainly a number of things you can do to improve your conversion rate. What you really need if you want to improve your website’s conversion rate is to create an Effective Sales Funnel (also known as a sales process or revenue funnel).


A sales funnel may sound like a complicated marketing technique but it really isn’t. It is just the process or a series of steps designed to turn your visitors into customers. Every single one of your visitors is a potential customer and your sales funnel will guide them toward the action you want them to do. An important thing to remember is that you can’t just copy someone else’s sales funnel. You can definitely look at other successful websites for ideas and examine how their funnel works. But eventually, you need to create a sales funnel that makes you feel comfortable working with it and can satisfy your target market needs, wants and expectations.
Content Marketing is important but you also have to pay attention to the “little” things on your site. Because they can negatively affect your conversion rate. Usually, people spend so much time and energy working on the important parts of their business like creating and promoting their content. But they totally forget to stop for a minute and look their website from the eyes of their audience.
You should always try to improve UX (User Experience). Make your site as easy to navigate as you can. Keep it simple and clean. If you want to increase conversions you must make it easy for people to quickly find the information they are looking for.
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